Popular music analysis : ten apothegms and four instances / Rob Walser --
From lyric to anti-lyric : analyzing the words in pop song / Dai Griffiths --
The sound is "out there" : score, sound design, and exoticism in The X-files / Robynn J. Stilwell --
Feel the beat come down : house music as rhetoric / Stan Hawkins --
The determining role of performance in the articulation of meaning : the case of "Try a little tenderness" / Rob Bowman --
Marxist music analysis without Adorno : popular music and urban geography / Adam Krims --
Jethro Tull and the case for modernism in mass culture / Allan F. Moore --
Pangs of history in late 1970s rock / John Covach --
Is anybody listening? / Chris Kennett --
Talk and text : popular music and ethnomusicology / Martin Stokes.